Fenders May
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Join us for the May edition of Fenders!
Doors will open at 5:30pm, with presentations starting around 6.00pm. Please arrive prior to 6pm to ensure you can gain access to the building.
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WHAT'S ON
Sketching and how to win at Pictionary
BY TERESA WATTS
Have you ever told yourself or others that you can’t draw? If you’ve ever played a game of Pictionary then you’ll know that getting your point across isn’t necessarily about how beautiful your drawing is. Sketching isn’t just for artists - it’s a powerful tool for communicating ideas, and you don’t have to be Da Vinci to do it.
Maybe you’ve struggled to get a concept across in a meeting, but hesitated to grab a marker and start scribbling on the whiteboard. Maybe you’ve struggled to get ideas out of your own head and onto paper, and dot points aren’t cutting it. Maybe you’re just not very good at Pictionary and want to beat your cousins at the next family party.
You’ll learn why sketching is such an effective method of communication, and how to put together your own visual vocabulary to bust out next time words alone are not enough. More importantly, we’ll go over why anyone can develop the skills and confidence to use sketching in their work, not just artists and designers. No fancy tools or artistic talent required.
ABOUT TERESA
Teresa Watts was talked out of becoming an artist at a young age, but now takes every opportunity to bring her love of drawing, comics, and lettering into her UX design work at Bankwest. Before getting into UX, Teresa spent over a decade working at and with digital agencies designing and developing websites, brands and illustrations. She also runs calligraphy workshops, sketchnotes at conferences, was co-editor of Side Project magazine, and once had a comic published in a Naruto fan zine.
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F8 Highlights: The things you should know.
BY BEN DERHAM
Marketforce's Technical Lead, Ben Derham was on the ground last month at Facebook's Developer Conference F8, in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose.
Ben will take you through some of the key announcements from the conference and share some insights from Facebook's Development Teams.
Crafting compelling real-time web experiences with GraphQL
BY ROB CROWLEY
Users expect real-time data. They want their banking transaction notifications and their orders confirmed now. They want their user experience to feel—connected. The world has moved to push and users are waiting for the data-driven experiences we create on the web to catch up.
GraphQL is a query language that provides a clean and simple syntax for consumers to interrogate your APIs. These queries are strongly typed, hierarchical and enable clients to retrieve only the data they need. In addition to the familiar pull based request-response pattern, GraphQL provides a mechanism for clients to subscribe to real-time updates in the form of Subscriptions.
In this talk, we will take a hands-on look at GraphQL and see how it can be used to build real-time APIs that are a joy to use. Additionally, we will explore how to integrate a React client with GraphQL using the ultra-flexible, community-driven Apollo client. By the end of the session, you will understand what is required to craft a compelling real-time user experience with GraphQL, and have the knowledge to deliver on these requirements.